An inclusive mission
As a scholar at Cambridge, Rowan Williams will continue pursuing a communal search for truth, says Benjamin Myers
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Hate has no place here
The sector must consider the law, confront its own prejudices, update its codes and banish the extremists from campus, says Ruth Deech
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Russell Group: Suits you, Sir
Our vice-chancellor has announced that he "perfectly understands" the reasoning that has led the universities of Exeter, Durham, York and Queen Mary, University of London to abandon their current...
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Impact refreshes parts sector ought to reach
Requiring academics to justify the importance of their research via “some kind of slogan that somebody in a pub is going to be able to repeat” is “much more healthy than the Stefan Collini line that...
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U-Multirank may be a waste of taxpayers’ money
It was conceived by the European Commission as an alternative to the established research-led university rankings, offering a user-driven “multi-dimensional” ranking with a wider range of indicators....
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Peers call for U-Multirank U-turn after failing to discern its value
House of Lords report advises Europe to ‘prioritise other activities’. Jack Grove writes
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Leader: Instability narrows horizons
Institutions need secure positions and income to plan and do good work; the same is true of individual scholars
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Research Intelligence - Vim up North leaves the rest trailing
N8 is the poster group for research collaboration and academic links with industry, writes Paul Jump
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
• A British student has been "sold down the river" by the government, his mother has said, after his extradition to the US was approved by Theresa May, the home secretary. Richard O'Dwyer faces up to...
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From where I sit - Journalistic prejudice
Heard the one about the academic pondering obscure points of theory in his ivory tower while real people get on with real work in the real world? How about the saying: "Those who can, do; those who...
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Odds and quads
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
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Appointments
University Campus SuffolkBill TancredA former athlete who represented Great Britain in the discus at two Olympic Games has been appointed director of sport and visiting professor of sports leadership...
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The Body Adorned: Dressing London
Are the curiosities of dress of various native peoples really so different from those of today’s London ‘tribes’, asks Matt Lodder
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Insecure in the knowledge
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers